Best Personal Essay and Memoir Newsletters in 2026
NewsletterFIT tracks 4 newsletters that cover Personal essay and memoir as a primary topic, all with posts in the last 90 days. By publicly shown subscriber count, the largest are this substack will fix me (7K), 米坛埋骨 (2K) and lorenaportela (2K).
Updated Nov 11, 2026 · sorted by publicly shown subscribers · methodology
- 1this substack will fix me7K subscribers
SubstackMonthly or less · last post 54 days ago
finding girlhood at the back of a don aldrin bus
Likely audience: Expats and overseas workers
- 2米坛埋骨2K subscribers
SubstackEvery two weeks · last post 31 days ago
From recent posts: 米坛埋骨 publishes a ten-year personal series of first-person essays about leaving China for New York, covering emigration, graduate study in social innovation design, feminist street activism, and the 2016 U.S. election…
Likely audience: readers of personal essays
- 3lorenaportela2K subscribers
SubstackMonthly or less · last post Sep 12, 2026
Always thinking, sometimes wondering, almost always writing.
Likely audience: readers of personal essays
- 4
SubstackMonthly or less · last post Sep 9, 2026
alexandra coburn. like if hunter s. thompson were a girl. subscribe for personal essays/media criticism/adulations for inquiries: alexandraccoburn@gmail.com
Likely audience: writers and authors
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